Species: Glistening Inkcap (Coprinellus micaceus)
Family: Gilled Mushrooms (PSATHYRELLACEAE)
Category: Fungi
Location: One Sighting
A. Fungi
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B. Gilled Mushrooms (PSATHYRELLACEAE)
These are dark-spored agarics with soft, fragile fruiting bodies. The family includes the inkcaps. Many of them deliquesce, that is to say after maturity the gills and caps dissolve by autodigestion into a black inky fluid.
C. Glistening Inkcap (Coprinellus micaceus)
This saprophytic fungus grows on dead or rotting deciduous wood. The tan-coloured caps are covered in white grains on a striated surface, which glisten in the light when moved.
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Glistening Inkcap
This saprophytic fungus, Glistening Inkcap, grows on dead or rotting deciduous wood.
Glistening Inkcap
The tan-coloured caps of Glistening Inkcap are covered in white grains on a striated surface, which glisten in the light when moved.
Glistening Inkcap
Glistening Inkcaps are members of the Psathyrellaceae family, which are dark-spored agarics with soft, fragile fruiting bodies.
